Cryptocurrency Code Review: TomoChain

Disclaimer: These reviews are done as is from what is on display in the master branch of the repo’s made available. This review is not a comment on the overall project, scope, or success thereof. This was done as an educational review by me and any comments in the article are simply my opinion. It should not be used as any comment or advice on the project as a whole.

Review Date: 25/03/2018

EDIT 27/03/2018 TomoChain confirmed that their source code is not open, the below is therefor only a representation of their public code and not their development work

** Original article follows

2 days ago, 11 days ago, 14 days ago, 19 days ago. This is a fairly inactive github. But still, right at top is go-tomo, so let’s have a look.

So, you see that “This branch is even with ethereum:master”, that means there are 0 changes. Not even a name rename.

Ok, so that is 100% stock standard geth, let’s move on.

270 commits behind. That means that from the code they forked, the original code has made 270 commits, they have done nothing. Let’s move on

1 commit ahead, added a docker file. That’s it, moving on.

Ok, it’s the same pattern with most repo’s except for 3, let’s look at them; performance-test-bot, crosschain-transfer-demo, and tomochain-testnet.

So performance-test-bot just generates a transaction and sends it, no real code here.

Tomochain-testnet is just setup instructions, nothing there.

And crosschain-transfer-demo is just a webapp wrapped around Ethereum running PoA

Conclusion: Another company that just booted up Ethereum in PoA, haven’t done anything else.